skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not comparable because you can't rent an apartment from someone then sell the ownership of the apartment to someone else because you don't own it.

There's no way of making it comparable without making some kind of derivative contract against the deed to the property but then it's back to traditional shorting.
Looks like the Robinhood became corrupt and ratted his outlaws out to the Sheriff of Nottingham
I take it you haven't seen the posts on WSB like this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l6omry/an_o...
What's the issue with using a SOCKS proxy? I do it all the time in qutebrowser.
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This new "feature" is very much appreciated. It would have been great during the deplatforming storm, as well.

Hopefully it will be infrequently necessary. But I suspect that we're living in "interesting times".
After research indicated that stress can alter DNA on the fly, I became more inclined to consider physio/enviro factors together, instead of allowing one to exclude the other.
> Are you serious? BLM murdered an 8 year old black girl in atlanta

You're claiming BLM is about murdering black kids? Are you serious?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/atlanta-mayor-8-year-o...

As someone who considered himself to be on the right until relatively recently, I'm pretty disturbed by how it seems to have rejected reason in favor of sloppy free association.

> The capital riots were patriots who have been upset that the corrupt courts refused to allow anybody to present evidence of fraud when there is more than enough out there to show

The allegations of fraud were laughed out of court, even by Republican judges, because they had no merit whatsoever. They were little more than expressions of an incompetent demagogue's psychological insecurity.
I've never really seen a Tesla charging station, so I don't really have any feelings about it. I've heard that there are nine of them in the country.
The OP doesn't say anything at all about "planning a career" around the language. They just want a job in it.

A large portion of my audience is currently employed using a popular language like JavaScript or Java and are currently looking for a job using Elixir. In many cases it's precisely because they do want to pick up new tools and grow.

Given that Clojure is a lisp and works quite a bit differently from mainstream languages but is full of useful ideas that can be taken back, I think the motivation makes perfect sense.
You're asking for citations for the non-existence of a secret group that you claim, with no evidence, is "the armed wing of the Democrat party". You have the burden of proof here, and you cannot be taken seriously until you've met that.
Toyota isn't an energy company. It doesn't develop its own battery technology that applies to much larger markets than automobiles. Not to mention charging infrastructure and self-driving. That's like comparing Amazon to CVS because CVS sells goods too. Meanwhile Amazon is aimed much more broadly.
Yeah I know, but I'm an escapist and I like my liver.
short positions are inherently higher risk than long positions because your upside is finite, and the downside is unbounded.

(this is why you might want to... hedge your shorts.)
> ...all the while he was buying tons and tons of stocks which he turned into billions

It's called activist investing. His fund did not buy stocks, but bought Credit Default Swaps to the tune of $27 million USD. In the event that the markets dropped, they were awarded massive gains if they exit position. They gained $1.3 billion.

Prior to exiting the position which was publicly released, he went on media outlets and promoted the idea of shutting down the economy. This is what activist investors do. They actively spread rumors that will help their positions.

https://assets.pershingsquareholdings.com/2020/03/26122842/P...
> BLM hasn't attempted to overturn a US election or overthrow the government.

CHAZ was even one step further.
yeah can be to
Agreed, but something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. They shouldn't be crying now when other add increased price pressure.
So this is basically Firefox' Tree Style Tabs but less powerful
and embedded in a slower UI?

The one and only reason I stopped using Vivaldi every time I
tried it is the performance. But it becomes more and more
obvious the developers simply have different priorities.
I'm saying the oil is not labelled 10-40W, but is actually 2-cycle motor oil and they put it in their car anyway.

I'm an outsider, but that's how this appears to me. They weren't lied to, they misjudged—and mainly because of a lack of understanding.

Traditionally, acting without understanding but still a high degree of confidence was called hubris.

And it appears the institutional traders expressed hubris when they over-leveraged, and this subset of retail investors expressed hubris when they didn't properly understand the capabilities and limitations of the app they decided to use to engage with the stock market.

I haven't seen people on other platforms complain in the same ways. I mean, for instance I haven't been restricted on my platform. I haven't heard anything about Questrade or E-Trade or anything.

To go back to my contrived motor analogies, it looks like a lot of people also expected a lawnmower to compete with a Tercel, never mind a Ferrari.
If the prevent buy and let people only sell stock it is going to create a great market imbalance that will just crash the stocks blocked.

For once this done by multiple broker is pure market manipulation because it is going to have a huge effect on the blocked stocks... and will leave big fish with direct access dictate the direction.
https://supercharge.info/map

https://www.tesla.com/tesla_theme/assets/img/supercharger/ne...
$468 at the peak to $196 in the span of an hour...
Tesla will figure out panel gaps before GM can figure out OTA updates
This year Elon had a massive performance bonus tied to stock value. The required value was so insanely high that when it was set and made public, some analysts thought it was a PR stunt. But the stratospheric rise of Tesla stock meant that he actually achieved this goal.

I'm not saying that there's definitely something nefarious there, just that there were some perverse incentives that make the situation feel a little bit suspicious.

But Tesla was also another "meme stock" that /WSB has loved to promote.
> currently 856 open tabs in 31 windows on my MacBook

bruh
The risk to Robinhood is GME crashing by more than the amount of the margin. A large brokerage that has been through crashes before has systems in place, and can spread the remaining risk around. If a large portion of your customers are invested in a handful of stocks, their risk becomes your risk. Also, other customers of Robinhood who have cash that is in an uninsured account are also at risk even if they are not invested in GME.
So what do the apologists for wealth concentration that cite the supposed "Free Market" as a reason to fight market regulation think of this? Is this not real free market behavior? If not, are the activities of hedge funds not real free market behavior?
I asked on twitter but didn't really get a response to this but I'm curious if someone involved in the industry can answer this for me:

If Robinhood is only allowing users to sell, can they choose to sell* (route the customer's sell order) to hedge funds that need to close out their short positions? Is that a thing they can do?

*EDIT: I realize that robinhood is passing along these orders to their market maker of choice - so my question really is that can the market maker here preferably sell to hedge funds looking to close their short positions?
so much for the free market
I believe they were usually enacted to protect the nearby properties that the runoff went to, not to help water utilities and water rights buyers make more money, and to protect sources for streams and creeks and rivers.

Also, I don't think most of them were bans. I think they usually just limited the extent of it. Some barrels collecting from the downspouts from your roof--fine. Building a huge reservoir filled by rain--not fine.

And they haven't been all repealed. A few states still have restrictions, such as freely allowing collecting anything that falls on the roofs of your buildings as long as the building weren't specifically to collect rainwater but requiring approval for anything else.
>But people _want_ to buy electric.

I'm not fully convinced that this is true unless it's true in the same fashion as "everyone wants to buy a Ferrari".

Most people I've come across just want to buy a cheap car that gets them from place to place.
The culture war thing is so mystifying with this especially since like Wall Street bets on both sides. So when you're pumping some random stock for supposed ideological reasons you're probably helping a bunch of Wall Street firms with bets on that side.
...and they've been making the same number of them for 10 years now, so it's entirely stable and normal. Their stoke price grows a little each year to reflect that "stability".

Tesla, on the other hand, are growing >50% each year, and it's going to continue for at least a couple more.
It was due to the SEC, not unofficial influences.. I think it's a different topic
I spent many years building exactly this technology. It's hard, but it is (or should be) table stakes for the industry.

The risk of not finding a counterparty to which to sell is different - and real - which is why I did not disagree with that aspect of your post.
Retail traders aren’t their customers, they are the product. Same as any other “free” service.
The hedge funds went to CNBC and told them they settled their short positions at $90. This news rippled through the entire trading community, exactly the same as WSB information ripples through the entire trading community. There is zero difference.

Most likely this will be like accessibility to poker online and in casinos which don't profit off the game directly interestingly in the 2000s. A lot of people got involved. A few made a lot of money and the rest went to do other things after a while.
That's ok, it's not like I'm paid to do this.
Exactly my thoughts. It's only a matter of time now. I'm most surprised it hasn't started in earnest yet.
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Nine it is.
The difference between operator and Engineer is, you need an Engineer when it's not obvious what to do next. That's the whole job - figuring the system out and finding a solution.
This comparison is unfair. The cost of just the first stimulus checks was ~269b[0] and the second ~ $464b[1] and these are the lower estimates I've seen. For comparison the 2008 bailout cost ~498b[2][3], possibly less after the government made some of it back. So no, the government isnt spending more on bailouts for the rich than on covid relief for the rest.

0. https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/01/what-to-know-about-the-sec...

1. http://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-would-2000-checks-cost

2. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/heres-how-much...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
Yeah. I fail to see what is terrifying about this...?
Spot on. The hedge funds were just that, hedged. Likely with deeply OOTM calls. Even if the redditors had been organic, the sentiment was immediately picked up, amplified, and arbitraged.
In the modern age, everything inspires terror to journalists and Internet commenters.
Just like how the MSM constantly emphasizes the fact that 5 people died as a result of the capital riots.

When: 2 people died as a result of strokes. No participation in the riot.

1 person trampled by the rioters. 1 unarmed person shot by the police. 1 police officer dead due to being struck in the head.

So clearly, only 2 people died as a consequence of the riots, per your logic.
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"How will I pay my rent this month?"

That's something I'd say to be funny, especially on reddit.
Thanks for the response! I edited the question a bit since you've answered (not to look like a typeclass fanboy), but I see what you mean — one can certainly better appreciate something when he doesn't have access to it.

Are there any more differences between Haskell and Elm that I should be wary of? I mean mostly the day-to-day stuff that I could get bitten by, rather that "linear types are not there yet in Elm" or "type families are unavaible".
Bill's high school also had a PDP terminal connected to UW. Basically no other high school had that - which gave him an early head start.
> buying or selling on behalf of a person or company

Again, that's what you'd think and it's technically true that you can know who is running what system, but the systems are too complex to say they are really working on behalf of anything except the rules of min/maxing.

How do you explain bidding the price of a textbook up to millions of dollars is "working on behalf" of anyone?
If there is coordination among licensed participants, I’m sure we will see some punishments doled out.
lol, you're the one that's trying to say that I said that “no-one should care”

I've no idea what your point is. But you do you.
I'm going to just say that making a codebase testable increases the complexity by a couple of orders of magnitude. Certainly it's great for some things. For other things it's a net negative.
I'm going to guess its because panel gaps don't matter as much as most of the other features of a car.
I hope you get well soon. Maybe see a psychiatrist.

You are taking Stocks linking them to alt-right then to violence. What? You look like a close devotee of an incompetent president whom we just fired. He was also super-spreader of conspiracy theories. No one had any problem with any other conservative president or progressive for that matter until he showed up.
Does that help you understand the code in front of you? Because the root issue is understanding the whole system, not individual codes.
You also cannot search for the short-squeezed stocks from this whole WSB push. They unlisted GME, AMC etc on Robinhood. Searching for them returns nothing. That feels really wrong.
seems to me 72 was when the divergence started, and 79 was just when it became permanent
> Our mission at Robinhood is to democratize finance for all.

Anyway, here's how we're doing the exact opposite. Our real customers have indicated that they want the following stocks to drop in price:

> $AAL, $AMC, $BB, $BBY, $CTRM, $EXPR, $GME, $KOSS, $NAKD, $NOK, $SNDL, $TR, and $TRVG

"We’re committed to helping our customers navigate this uncertainty." makes much more sense when read a different way.
Which is more or less how most big investment (hedge) and prop trading firms use it anyway. The key difference here as the same is it always is: which group has the ear of those with power.
Fully aware

I’m in the industry. I stand by what I said:)

You said something that was flagrantly wrong, I’m just trying to help correct you.
Day trading will likely lose a lot of people a lot of money. It's absolutely a zero sum game and for the vast majority, a negative-sum game.
It seems like a perfectly fine one to me. It's a signal that alerts us to a lack of attention to detail in assembly. For doors, it's not a deal breaker, but for the electronics installation or windows or brakes, a lack of attention to detail can be catastrophic.
Who do you sell to if purchases aren't allowed?
Sometimes it is just the env you work in and how much they trust you. Some places 'I need a server' you will have a VM or machine on your desk in an hour. Others companies it is a 2 year processes and bunches of approvals.
I personally believed that stocks would continue at depressed valuations for the duration of the pandemic, yet bought during the crash because I knew there would be a recovery. I don’t think those actions are contradictory. (And of course I wound up being surprised how quickly prices recovered.)
That is what they're hoping people will do. Exit their positions to make shares available.
Do you have a source for that special exemption? Or even just keywords I can search for?
Perhaps so - but not understanding styling options for a component seems like the wrong limit.
For all the thrashing the 'big ones' get, I am sure a large percentage of the actual GME shareholders are institutional ones. The retail ones are driving the prices and narrative, but they are a small drop in the bucket.
The fact that the word “terrifying” is in the headline indicates sensationalist bullshit written from a sympathetic perspective to hedge fund capitalists.
namecheap.com is great (always good prices). Obviously, never go with Godaddy.com (rip offs)
He was born in 1967 and been playing professionally since 1986. He has even started a game for Yokohama FC this year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuyoshi_Miura
YOU can't buy, only sell. That means buying power of the Reddit mob was taken away.

The retail brokers bailed out the hedge funds!
As a musician, I am thrilled that JackTrip and Jamulus are available to make real-time collaboration possible but they're not simple to install and configure for everyone. I spent numerous sessions trying to get a non-techie friend's Ubuntu laptop setup with Jamulus but we both got so frustrated we gave up. I hope the next generation brings with it easier setup, there's just so much potential.
Who is blocking buys?

The context of this subthread is this message https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25942677 about brokers allowing the buying of GME but not on margin (and how they don't have to disallow the use of margin for every stock for that).
My worst experiences have always been somewhat related to this.

They need an engineer, but think they only need an operator, and they schedule (and sometimes pay) accordingly.
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

― Warren Buffett
Shorting a company to the extent that you have enough leverage to go bankrupt? Not the brightest move. Shorting it so that you may not be physically able to satisfy the sales? That's window-licking territory.
I'm shocked (/s) that Silicon Valley's brand of libertarianism led to five companies dominating everything and then pulling up the ladder behind them by abandoning open standards in favor or proprietary silos.
> The only difference in this case is the 99-percenters are reaping the massive gains while Wall Street titans are seeing a genuine upheaval of the norms of investing.

Well, funnily enough, the earliest 1% of the 99% will reap massive gains, while the majority will lose their shirt when the stock finally collapses.
What is artificial about buying a stock and encouraging others to buy it?
Attempts to frame it as Good Guys vs. Bad Guys situation is an exceptionally good way to rally people to your cause.
The amount of rookie webdevs who think contributing to an open-source project is a normal part of learning now is so baffling.

How are you supposed to make significant contributions to any project worth a darn without any significant experience?

It sounds mean, but the trend should probably be discouraged. It's unnecessary, anyhow. Open-source projects are not practice projects. You make those up yourself.
Gamestop was a short squeeze though - Dogecoin isn't in that same position as far as I know?
One possible legitimate reason is the risk to Robinhood themselves. They allow margin trading and I think anybody would agree that buying GME at these crazy prices on margin is incredibly risky. If the traders can't pay, Robinhood or their bank/insurers are on the hook. Also even though the narrative here is Robinhood traders vs hedge funds, surely there are also a lot of shorts on Robinhood too, so there's more margin risk from those too.

However why not just disable margin trading on these stocks instead of shutting them off altogether? I don't really know enough to say. Maybe there are additional risks somewhere unrelated to margins? Or maybe the upstream market makers are forcing their hand. Or maybe it's some combination of reasons, including pressure from people who are on the losing sides of these bets.

> Why should Robinhood pick a winner (siding against their own customers)

As others have often pointed out, Robinhood is in some ways analagous to social media companies. Their end users are not their customers, because it's a free service. The customers are the businesses on the other end, in Robinhood's case the market makers who are paying for the right to front-run trades. If this is no longer profitable for them due to crazy volatility, they can apparently stop allowing trades at any time.
I agree. If it was impairing their ability to sell cars, I imagine they would address it.
It may be a literal use of the archaic meaning, as in 'rape and pillage'. Obviously insensitive though.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/rape
GME is still over $400/share this morning

Guess what's changed in the 56 minutes since you posted this?

GME: $265.00

Though I think it had dipped into around $380 by the time of parent post, and heading down. But someone bought at $430 this morning.
Opportunity loss. When I worked IT in brokerages we always had to reimburse traders for missed opportunity from technology issues -- which was abused, whenever trades went against them they would claim their UI was unresponsive and we'd have a programmer scour the logs with millisecond timestamps to prove the UI did respond and how quickly, then cross reference with the tradebook to see if its a trade that would likely be executed immediately or not etc. Often times the resolution is that the trader clicked trade at this timestamp, the order was sent at this timestamp, the exchange acknowledged at this timestamp, but you tried to buy 10000 shares at X price and only Y were available, so the trade did not execute immediately or not at all.

Edit: Class action lawsuit was just filed for loss of opportunity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25945052
One could wish that they wouldn't try OTA.
As another responder says; a broker will close out the position for you and come after you for whatcha owe them.
Another reason is hedging, a form of insurance.
Sure with broad strokes, it generally sucks when a tech company makes unilateral decisions for its customers, whether that's restricting which stocks you can buy or whether you can put unauthorized apps on your iPhone.

But I find it particularly egregious because the major principle of RH was that it was on the side of the everyman rather than institutions.
Or (3) they got hit on some GME paper at the outset out of pure luck, and printed the gamma much higher. SPY volume is higher but SPY doesn't realize like GME has.

I can tell you're in the industry because you say pnl instead of p&l haha.
I'm glad the media is consistently showing their true colors. More and more people will begin to realize that Trump was exactly right about the media.
To be entirely fair to the FT, WSB did originally have some connection to 4chan's /biz/.

It doesn't really anymore, but it's an understandable mistake imo
> Or maybe the upstream market makers are forcing their hand.

I'm not a lawyer, but to me, that seems like it would be very very illegal.
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A stock is worth what people are willing to pay for it...
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Why can't they just stop the people on margin from buying gme? That would be reasonable. But if it's your money, I don't see how it's risky for RH.
This has to be one of the more obnoxious things people have generated hype over. So much fake outrage over the 'rich' (some bullshit generic enemy) to rally people to buy stocks with hope they can get rich quick (because they heard some success story of the few). Looking forward to this one fizzling out.